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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Egypt: A Look to the Future

Please join us for a conversation with His Excellency Mohamed M.
Tawfik, Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the United
States. This event will be moderated by Professor Nicholas Burns,
Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics
at the Harvard Kennedy School. Mohamed M. Tawfik became ambassador
of Egypt to the United States on Sept. 19, 2012, having previously
served as ambassador to Lebanon since 2011. Ambassador Tawfik also
served as director-general of the Egyptian Building Fund Authority
at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2008-2011); ambassador to
Australia and nonresident ambassador to New Zealand, Western Samoa,
Fiji, Papua New Guinea and the Marshall Islands (2004-2008);
director of the Cabinet of the Minister of State for Foreign
Affairs in Cairo (2002-2004); and counselor, minister
plenipotentiary and deputy permanent representative at the Egyptian
Permanent Mission to the United Nations and other international
organizations in Geneva (1997-2002). In addition, he served in
Washington, D.C., on a prior occasion, as third and second
secretary at the Egyptian Embassy (1986-1990), as well as first
secretary at the Egyptian Embassy in Harare (1991-1995).